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  1. Yes. on Will the Next Election Be Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

    Yes, you silly wanker.

  2. Yes. on 611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox · · Score: 1

    Do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?

    Yes, you silly wanker.

  3. Word Document Reader and Converter on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    rm

    Works every time.

  4. Yes! on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    Yes!

    Not that I use Windows for anything other than WoW. But, still. Yes!

  5. "general purpose algorithm" on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    I guess using integer factoring algorithms are out of vogue, these days. I wonder how well A* works for factoring.

  6. Re:Anon. Karma Whore on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 1

    I've seen this post before...

  7. Re:No Good Pilot on Photos Of Rutan's X-Prize Entry · · Score: 1

    No good pilot would dare take off without his trusty West Bend timer!

    It seems your flight school uses the little beast. Strange, no?

  8. Re:The laughs keep coming on Extensible Programming for the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Amen.

  9. Dehumanizing on Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida · · Score: 1

    Drug dealers are killing people. Everyday. By the very product they push.

    Politicians are killing people. Everyday. By the very products that they push (wars, death penalty). Your statement is almost a tautology. Every profession results in a deaths, by the very products of that profession. Cattle ranchers make tainted beef possible. Chemists make overdose and dangerous drug interaction possible. Cigarette companies... Etc. These statements (and yours) are certainly very emotionally powerful but they don't deal with the dehumanizing issue, unless you consider that they are dehumanizing whole categories of people.

    Again, bullshit. Drug users do hurt other people. Stealing to support their habit. Lying to cover up. Accidents brought about through deminished [sic] mental and physical capacity.

    This is rather nicely addressed here.

    Who is dehumanizing a class of people? In no case has anyone's civil rights been violated by the passing of laws.

    You, for example. You are referring to people who are repressed by the law and society as if they weren't human. Also, laws are usually passed with enforcement in mind and it's enforcement that almost always impinges upon someone's civil rights. But, then, that's the nature of the beast...

    In fact, your whole post seems (to me) to be more than a little dehumanizing. Hrrrm. I think I've been trolled.

  10. Headline... on MSN Rolling Out New Search Engine In July · · Score: 1

    MSN Rolling Out New Search Engine In July

    I can't decide which potshot to take...

    from the can't-walk-on-its-own-two-feet dept.

    or

    Cue the dung beetles.

  11. Re:28 countries exempt on U.S. Begins Digital Fingerprinting In Airports · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's called identity theft.

    As for the photograph, many of us USians know just how little a state issued ID photo has to look like its carrier...

  12. Re:Could be good for general aviation... on First Hover Flight Test of X-50A Dragonfly · · Score: 1

    The FCC would never approve this vehicle in its current form.

    I agree. The Federal Communications Commission would never grant approval to this vehicle. Perhaps you meant the FAA.

    But, yes. I agree that the vehicle, in its current form, isn't overly suitable for civillain use.

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  13. Unix Philosophy (watered down) on Teaching Linux/Unix Basics to Microsoft Junkies? · · Score: 1

    You might want to consider a very brief rundown of unix philosophy.

    (Almost) everything is a file

    Many small tools that can be used together

    some pipe basics

    a brief intro to the security model, groups

    That should make working with unix a little easier for them and provide a springboard for your crash course to link into other material.

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  14. Time for some good ol' trolling. on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    This post is brought to you by the letter `K' and the numbers 2.2.2.

  15. Re:I really hope these releases do well on FreeBSD Upcoming Release Dates · · Score: 1


    You see. Those are exactly the features I want in a network/server OS!!

    I have waited so long, just to be able to log into my servers and click on things with a mouse pointer. And there is nothing like quite feel like a GUI in the morning.

    I'm glad that I can now add another array, some more memory, a faster proc, and a new OS while taking only a modest performance hit. It's worth it. Because, "at least with NT you have pretty winders to click on and a mouse to move."

  16. Re:Interesting juxtaposition of article titles... on Microsoft Bails Out Of Corel · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft Bails Out Of Corel" "A Million Bucks, Mach 7.6, Straight Down"

    Heh, heh...


    "that's-gonna-leave-a-mark"

    Heh.